Lord John Press

• Updike, John. “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.” (1977) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 326 numbered/lettered and signed copies printed from Hermann Zapf’s Aldus type on Curtis Rag paper. 300 copies are numbered 1-300; 26 copies lettered A-Z. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom for the Lord John Press. Originally an article in the New Yorker, the essay is published here with the footnotes added in 1965 on its inclusion in the author’s assorted prose. UMCP has copy number 185. Special Collections Stacks GV865 .W5 U62.


• Updike, John. From the Journal of a Leper. (1978) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 326 copies printed from linotype Aldus with Palatino display on Curtis rag paper. 300 copies numbered 1-300; 26 copies lettered A-Z. All copies have been signed by the author. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Quarter-bound cloth with marbled papers on the cover boards. UMCP has copy numbered 209. Special Collections Stacks PS3571 .P4F7.


• Oates, Joyce Carol. The Step-Father. (1978) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies printed from Perpetua types on Curtis rag paper. Signed by the author. Designed & Printed by Lillian Marks for the Lord John Press. Quarter-clothbound with marbled paper covers. UMCP has copy numbered 166. Special Collections Stacks PS3565 .A8 S78.


• Barth, John. Todd Andrews to the author: A Letter from Letters. (1979) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies printed from Linotype Aldus on rag Arches paper. A deluxe edition of fifty numbered and signed copies specifically bound. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom for the Lord John Press. UMCP has copy numbered 89.  Special Collections Stacks F181 .A53.


• Oates, Joyce Carol. Queen of the Night. (1979) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies printed from Aldus type on Sonata paper. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom for the Lord John Press. Quarter-cloth bound. UMCP has copies numbered 62 and 126. Special Collections Stacks PS3565 .A8 Q84.


• Updike, John. Talk from the Fifties. (1979) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies printed from Trump Mediaeval type on Sonata Vellum paper. A deluxe edition of 75 numbered and signed copies specially bound. Designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom for the Lord John Press. UMCP has copies numbered 34 and 201. Special Collections Stacks PS3571 .P4 T34.


• Updike, John. People One Knows: Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans. (1980) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies printed from Aldus type on Warren’s Olde Style Wove; 100 deluxe copies specially bound, all of which have been signed by the author. Designed by Grant Dahlstrom and printed at the Castle Press. UMCP has copy numbered 122 and signed. Special Stacks PS3571 .P4P4.


• Welty, Eudora. Acrobats in a Park. (1980) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies printed from Cochin types on Frankfurt paper. Designed and printed by Pat Reagh for the Lord John Press. UMCP has copy numbered 126. Special Collections Stacks PS3545 .E6 A27


• Coover, Robert. “The Convention.” (1982) Northridge, CA. Limited edition of 300 numbered and signed copies printed from Deepdene type on Ragston paper. 50 deluxe copies were especially bound. Designed by Vance Gerry and printed for Lord John Press by Patrick Reagh, Printers. UMCP has copy numbered 167. Miniature Book. Rare Stacks PS3553 .O633 C6.

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